Confirmed Speakers

Wade Adams Director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Rice University Mansoor Amiji Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University Ananth Annapragada Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Roger A. Assaker CEO and co-founder e-Xstream Engineering S.A., Belgium Daniel Attinger Founder, Laboratory for Microscale Transport Phenomena, Assistant Professor, Columbia University Sarah Audet Medtronic Wolfgang Bacsa Professor University of Toulouse, France Sanjay Banerjee Director, Microelectronics Research Center University of Texas at Austin Ray Baughman Professor University of Texas - Dallas Angela M. Belcher Professor, Materials & Biomedial Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Michael A. Bevan Associate Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Johns Hopkins University Ed Billups Professor Rice University Frank Brown Chief Science Officer Accelrys Software Inc. Stuart Burchill CEO & Co-Founder Industrial Nanotech Fiona Case Case Scientific, NSTI Soft Nanotech Coordinator David G. Castner Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, University of Washington Vicki Colvin Director of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology Rice University Zheng Cui Principal Scientist, Group Leader, Micro and Nanotechnology Centre Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK Steven A. Curley MD University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Chris DeArmitt Hybrid Plastics Inc. Guy A. DeRose Associate Director of Technical Operations, Kavli Nanoscience Institute, CALTECH Bob Doering Senior Fellow in Silicon Technology Development Texas Instruments Rebekah Drezek Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University Yvon Durant Research Associate Professor of Materials Science University of New Hampshire Mauro Ferrari President, Alliance for NanoHealth Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Thomas Frauenheim Chairman and Scientific Coordinator Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science Glenn Fredrickson Professor University of California, Santa Barbara Victor Garcia-Suarez Research Associate, Department of Physics Lancaster University, UK Elena I. Gaura Cogent Computing, Coventry University, UK Gerhard Goldbeck-Wood Director, Nanotechnology Accelrys, Inc. Jaime C. Grunlan Professor Texas A&M University Pelagia-Irene (Perena) Gouma Director, Center for Nanomaterials & Sensor Development, Stony Brook University Jason Haaheim Manager, DPN Applications NanoInk, Inc. Geoffrey Harding Chief Scientist GE Security Steffen Hardt Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany Jeffrey D. Hartgerink Associate Professor Departments of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Rice University Robert Hauge Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Chemistry Rice University Greg Haugstad Characterization Facility, University of Minnesota, MiNTeC node of the NNI Network Steven Hillenius Vice President Semiconductor Research Corp. Srinivas Iyer Los Alamos National Laboratory Brian H. Johnston Eastman Kodak Company Jay Kipper Associate Director at the Bureau of Economic Geology University of Texas at Austin Jim Klostergaard Professor, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Junichiro Kono Associate Professor Rice University Brian A. Korgel Professor University of Texas at Austin Ramanan Krishnamoorti Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Dept. of Chemistry, University of Houston Kristen Kulinowski Faculty Fellow in Chemistry, Rice University Director for External Affairs, CBEN Eugenia Kumacheva Department of Chemistry University of Toronto, Canada Kock-Yee Law Nanotechnology project leader Xerox Sean Lee Licensing Associate, Physical Sciences Office of Technology Transfer, Boston University Stephan Link Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University Jie Liu Associate Professor Duke University Hang Lu Assistant Professor Georgia Institute of Technology

Alan MacDonald University of Texas Vincent Magnotta Air Products & Chemicals Robert Magnusson Professor University of Connecticut Scott E. McNeil Director, Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory, National Cancer Institute at Frederick Chris Menzel Dimatix, Inc. Meyya Meyyappan Director of the Center for Nanotechnology NASA Ames Research Center Mark Mielke BASF Rajesh R. Naik Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, WPAFB Tinh Nguyen Senior Project Leader National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Lewis R. Norman Research Manager Halliburton David J. Norris Professor of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota Marc R. Nyden Building and Fire Research Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Pierre Panine Senior Scientist Xenocs SA, France Nitin Parekh Director, Business Development Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Matteo Pasquali Renata Pasqualini MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Emil Peña Executive Director of the Energy and Environmental Systems Institute Rice Univerity Valery A. Petrenko Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine Auburn University Darrin J. Pochan Professor, Soft Matter, Associate Editor for North America University of Delaware Sotiris E. Pratsinis Professor Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, (ETH Zürich) Michael Pratt Director of Corporate Business Development, Office of Technology Transfer, Boston University Nick Quirke Principal, UCD College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences University College Dublin, Ireland Mark Reed Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Yale University Frank Register Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Texas at Austin Rebecca Richards-Kortum Stanley C. Moore Professor of Bioengineering Rice University John A. Rogers Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joël S. Rossier Co-Founder DiagnoSwiss, Switzerland Rodney Ruoff Professor Cockrell Family Regents Chair VII University of Texas at Austin Bernd Sachweh BASF - The Chemical Company Ludwigshafen, Germany Thomas Sawitowski Productgroup Manager Nanotechnology BYK-Chemie GmbH, Germany Steve Schuster Chairman and Founder Rainier Corporation Gabriel A. Silva, Assistant Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Ophthalmology and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego Aaron Stein Brookhaven National Laboratory Nick Sugimoto Honda Jan Sumerel Dimatix, Inc. Donald Sundberg Director of the Nanostructured Polymers Research Center University of New Hampshire Sarah L. Tao Senior Research Engineer, MEMS Design Draper Laboratory Maxim N. Tchoul Air Force Research Laboratory Clayton Teague Director Federal National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) Sarah H. Tolbert Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA Vladimir Torchilin Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University Loucas Tsakalakos General Electric Thomas E. Twardowski Twardowski Scientific Krassimir P. Velikov Unilever, The Netherlands Armin R. Völkel Staff Scientist Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Qian Wang Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina Thomas J. Webster Associate Professor of Engineering Brown University R. Bruce Weisman Professor of Chemistry, R. E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University Yael Weiss Merck Wolfgang Windl Associate Professor Ohio State University Jeff Welser IBM and Nanoelectronics Research Initiative Michael S. Wong Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University Fred Zehnausern Director, Center for Biodesign Arizona State University